Church of Spiritual Technology
| Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) |
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| legal form | Non-profit |
| Seat | 419 Larchmont, No. 162, Los Angeles, CA 90004 (2011) |
| founding | May 27, 1982
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| place | Woodland Hills, California |
| Board | General Directors: Lyman Spurlock, Rebecca Pook and Maria Starkey - Special Directors: Stephen A. Lenske, Sherman D. Lenske and Lawrence A. Heller (1982) |
The Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) is a California organization that was founded in 1982 and owns the copyrights to all of L. Ron Hubbard's works . The CST acts as the L. Ron Hubbard Library .
The CST receives its income from license fees and from the company it owns Author Services Inc. , which operates for profit and publishes and promotes Hubbard's novel literature.
Information about the organization
The Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) was founded on May 27, 1982 by attorney Sherman D. Lenske.
In 1987 the Church of Spiritual Technology had revenues of $ 503 million. According to statements by high-ranking ex-employees, $ 400 million had disappeared through bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus.
Scientology Archives
The CST initiated and manages the Scientology Archives, which translate L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology writings onto stainless steel and store them in titanium capsules stored in various vaults. The Trementina Base in New Mexico is one of the current locations .
Author Services Inc.
Author Services Incorporation (ASI), founded on October 13, 1981 by Ron Pock, Norman Starkey, Fran Harris and John Alcock, represents the literary, theatrical and musical works of L. Ron Hubbard and sells them as Galaxy Press .
The establishment of the ASI coincided with the restructuring of the Scientology organization, in which a nested organizational chart was created to a. To disguise money flows. The executive body was the Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO), which, in addition to the Religious Technology Center (RTC), also brought the business enterprise Author Services Inc. into being. David Miscavige held a leading position at both organizations and is still Chairman of the Board of RTC today .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lawrence Wright [2013] In the Prison of Faith , p. 10 Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5
- ↑ Website Author Services Inc., [1] ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 1, 2014
- ^ CST founding charter, Article 5, [2] , accessed on September 1, 2014
- ^ TIME Magazine, Richard Behar, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, May 6, 1991, [3] , accessed September 1, 2014
- ↑ St. Petersburg Times, Bob Henderson, Vault to get Hubbard's writings , July 25, 1991, [4] , accessed September 1, 2014
- ↑ NBC, Alan Boyle, Have Scientologists constructed a 'space alien cathedral'? Not really , January 7, 2013, [5] , accessed September 1, 2014
- ↑ The Culvert Chronicles, February 24 - March 2, 2011, Vol. 6, Issue 5, p. 15
- ^ David S. Touretzky , Carnegie Mellon University, [6]
- ^ A b Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 29, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-482023-03-9
- ↑ a b Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, pp. 139-40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8
